Placket-fastener



(No Model.)

J. DETERMAN. PLAGKBT PASTBN'ER.

No. 560,085. Patented May 12, 1896.

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ATTORNEYS.

IDREW BjRAMMJHUTU-UTHQWISHNGTUNDC UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES DETERMAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEYV YORK.

PLACKET-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 560,085, dated May 12,1896.

Application filed May 22, 1895. Serial No. 550,264. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES DETERMAN, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kingsand State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Fastening Devicefor Plackets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The invention relates to devices for closing the plackets of womensskirts; and the object of the invention is to provide an improved deviceof this character of simple construction, durable, capable of beingquickly and conveniently connected and disconnected, and forming, whenclosed, a secure and proper closure of the placket to which it isapplied.

The invention consists of certain parts and details and combinations ofthe same, as will be fully described hereinafter, and then pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating my improved device appliedto the placket of a skirt and in the closed position. Fig. 2 is anelevation of the device, enlarged. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showingthe device applied and in the open position, and Fig. Al is across-section on the line at 4 of Fig. 2.

My improved device is formed with two stays A B, preferably of sheetmetal, and of a length to extend the length of the placket andprojecting slightly beyond the closed end of the latter, and these staysare united at their lower ends by a link 0, the connection andproportion of parts being such that the stays are spaced apart, asshown, to accommodate the casings, as hereinafter referred to. The linkat its upper edge at the center is formed with an overhanging flange orlug c, contacting with the inner edges of the stays at a point abovetheir pivots, and thus preventing longitudinal movement of the staysrelatively to each other. Thus if the stay A moves independently of thestay B and parallel therewith the link 0 must swing in the are of acircle, whereupon the lug cudll bind against the stay A and stop saidswinging of the link, which in turn prevents the movement of the stay,because the movement of the link is necessary to independentlongitudinal movement of either stay. The link 0 further has anapertured ear 0 at its bottom edge.

The stays are provided at their upper ends with fastening devices, andthese fastening devices I arrange between the stays and form thefasteners in a novel manner. Thus one stay is provided with a U shapedloop D, and this loop is received between and engaged by two spring-jawsE E, which form a catch for said loop. The jaws are secured at one endto one stay and project from the inner edge thereof toward the loop D ofthe companion stay. The jaws have each a bend e e, the bend e of onebeing at a point outward from the other bend, e, and the free ends areinclined laterally from the bends, as at e 6 to bring such inclinedparts at an angle to the plane and path of the loop D, and the extremeends e e are bent outward in opposite directions to better guide theloop D between the jaws. Further, one jaw E projects slightly beyond theother, whereby the loop D may be brought against such projecting end bya slight bending of the stays, thus facilitating the engagement of theparts.

The loop when entered between the jaws is normally held securely thereinat the bends thereof, as shown best in Fig. 4, and separation of theparts by a movement in their planes or by a mere movement on theirpivots is difficult, and accidental disengagement is thus guardedagainst. The parts may be separated readily, however, by so flexing thestays as to bring the loop D to the same angle as the inclined outerparts 6 e and then moving the stays on their pivots.

The device is applied to the skirt by forming suitable casings along theedges of the placket in which the stays are held and by stitchingthrough the apertured ear 0 of the link 0, the meeting edges of thecasings being accommodated between the stays. The device when thusapplied forms a secure closure of the placket and may be quicklyfastened and unfastened.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. A placket-fastener, consisting of two staysconnected at one end to have pivotal movement, and a fastening devicefor the free ends of the stays, the same consisting of a loop secured toone stay and two spring-jaws secured to the remaining stay, the saidjaws having in each a bend inward of their ends, the said bends being atdifferent points on the length of the jaws whereby the loop is receivedand held, substantially as described.

2. A placket-fastener consisting of two stays connected at one end tohave a pivotal movement and having a fastening device for their freeends, the said fastening device consisting of a loop secured to one stayand of two spring-jaws secured to the remaining stay, one of said jawshaving formed therein a bend approximately midway its length and havingits extremity bent outwardly, the remaining jaw having also a bend at apoint inward from the bend in the first jaw and having its outer portionextended at an acute angle to the outer portion of the first jaw,substantially as described.

3. A placket-fastener, consisting of two stays having adjacent to oneend afastening device, and a link for pivotally connecting the oppositeends, the said opposite ends being out of contact with each other andthe link having a lug which projects between said ends and which makescontact with the stays when they are closed, substantially as described.

4. A placket-fastener, comprising two stays pivotally connected so as tohave movement in the same plane, and a fastening device carried by thestays, the members of the fastening device being carried respectively bythe stays and projecting from the inner edges thereof toward each other,the said fastening members engaging by a pivotal movement of the staystoward each other and in the plane of the stays and disengaging bypivotal movement of the stays away from each other, substantially asdescribed.

5. A placket-fastener, consisting of two stays mounted to have pivotalmovement, a loop carried by one stay at the inner edge, and two spring-jaws carried by the inner edge of the opposite stay, the said jawsbeing capable of receiving the loop only when the stays are moved towardeach other in the same plane, substantially as described.

JAMES DETERMAN. lVitn esses:

J. L. McAULIrrn, JNo. M. BITTER.

